Caching in the Midlands for the day
2006/07/17









Leaving early on Sunday morning we travelled first to Hillrest to do Sewer View (GCX20F), bit of a odd place to put a cache, but the short drive up to the cache was pleasent, found it rather quickly thanks to Noddy who was there the day before and left tyre and foot prints leading right up to the cache, so the find was quick and easy.
Nothing exciting in the cache and not entirly sure why the cache was placed there.











Then it was off to the Midlands for 3 caches, hopefully 2 FTF's. Turnng of the N3 towards Dargnel and the Lavender Co we came across the place where Nelson Mandela was arrested, which gave me the idea for a neat micro (hmmmm).

For along time now i've been wanting to see this place and it was not a dissapointment.










So off we went to the Lavender Co (GCG7AP).
Lovely place to visit all the different smells confuses the nose. Set in the country side away from the main road makes for a quiet visit.

Once there the owners have to be cosulted who will bring the cache to you. We dropped off a TB sighned the log, bought some Lavender and off we went in search of something to eat.



Sam always wanted to ride a tractor



















The pit stop










the Lavender Co








Leaving the lavender Co we joined the R103 and set forth to find food, finding a delightful place, cannot remember what it was called though, we stopped ordered food and i went walk about to take some photos. The food was good, portions small and well the price large.
Leaving with our tummies full we set off to tackel Happy hill (GCX4A2). As we arrived at the location it turned out to be a guest house, after announcing ourselfes to the owner we set off looking for the cache somewhere near a fence.

Walking across a field we got to the spot at zero meters only to find ourselfs in the middle of the field and no cache. We realised that the co-ords were out and set off looking under every tree,log leaves along the fence until we found it, thank goodness, our FTF for the day. The cache itself was nothing special but the location was lovely, which is what it really is all about seeing this lovely country of ours. We dropped off a TB here and left for the next cache, That been Waterbend (GCX4A8).






Happy hill














Placing the TB
















90m to go or so we thought








Arriving at Waterbend it's funny to find it on the bend of a road and it's then that you realise where the name comes from. Set off the road which one would not easily see if travelling
from Durban to Nothingham. The cache is located by a smalish waterfall between some rocks and also here the co-ords were out but looking for the most likely spot we found it, Our second FTF for the day. We took some photos and off we went to Karkloof falls to do some investigating.









Waterbend






















Arriving at Howick we travelled towards the falls, turned off the main road and drove about 10km down this lovely gravel road set amoungst Sappie's plantations towards the falls. The fall's themselves are nothing short of spectacular, having had no plan to place a cache here it was decided on a inpromptue cache hidding. We hid a Micro cache with the intention of coming back to place a bigger container. After taking some photos we left for the trip home satisfied that we had, had a good day out caching.














Next trip South coast meander on the 30th July 2006